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107. 64 Days - Part 2
2 years ago
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As always, we'd love to hear your feedback - it will help greatly in deciding what questions to answer and in what order. Thanks for watching.
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I have a new version exported that I'll have to upload after sunday (when my weekly limit resets).
Hmm - the footage JD let me use was the airplane shot out the window... but I *think* you're talking about something else, right?
"64 Days". First off it takes a lot of guts to do a movie. And to have your X Girlfriend (on Valentines Day) beside you to help is a testament to your fortitude and commitment to this film. Secondly you used what you had. Meaning any slide, picture or movie to capture what you wanted to say. Thirdly you made Larry and Jason real to us viewers. Which immediately captures our attention. And makes this for me one of best documentaries on Vimeo. Which is inspiring me to do upload my rockumentary. But this 2nd Part is a major accomplishment for you in showing you that you do have enough footage. And that the saying "keep it simple stupid" does work. Cause all of this is making yours as well as everyone involved in this project come true. I hope what I said inspires you to keep on with Part 3. Best..
Yea - Amanda and I are hoping we do a decent job of explaining what exactly we went through (in ep8) to end up still doing this project together.
As for content :P yes, we were a bit stretched thin on this episode, and because of time-restraints... we just had to use what we had.
But especially thanks for the comment on making Larry & Jay seem real - that was the real goal of this episode for Amanda & I.
You should upload your stuff :) I'd love to see it. And Amanda & I could never pull any of this off without comments like this - they really do keep us going when things get tough.
But your comment is great - thanks so much for saying those things. It keeps us going.
You're so helpful, generous, and just... awesome :) We can't thank you enough.
Is *all* the audio that way? Or just the voice-over or the music? I'll have to be careful about that with these episodes.
As per length. the content and style of your work, is so superb I want to see more of it.
Thanks though - you're too kind :)
this is a special project.
But... really :) Amanda and I are very, very flattered that you like it.
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Peace & Love
You are an inspiration...
Onward you go.
Wow - that's quite the compliment. Hopefully Amanda and I can keep it up :P
But I'll have to check out some of the directors and the film that were listed under that style - might help :)
Thanks for all the adds to your doc' channel too!
Thanks for watching!
2) you two are beautiful people
3) I LOVE birds....these are so beautiful.
So much of this...just eats away at my heart. And helps me realize how important life is. how vital it is to be alive...and just live, and exist.
When I see the images.
And When I listen to what you say,
There's an electricity that travels throughout my body, telling me that it's really okay.
we have nothing to lose
and absolutely everything to gain.
2) :P
3) I love birds too - when I drive along Hwy 1, the seagulls like to fly along the road over the edge, it's my favorite thing to tape :)
I don't know how I've been so lucky to have that effect - but it makes all these years of hard work and dead ends worth it. I love this line "so much of this... just eats away at my heart"...
It is so true: we would never be able to keep going without people like you watching and saying things like this.
2) :-)~ (I don't even know what that is)
3) chirp chirp.
i like you mike you are good people.
the video is awesome, i like that backwards playing and the blur effects. plus the slow perfect movement.
The "perfect" in the slow moment shots are thanks to hours and hours and hours of smoothcam analysis ;) I think the last shot, took my decked out MacBook Pro 26 hours to run the filter on it (although, the master shot for that scene is a 40 min one-shot) :P
P.S. I wish I was riding with you.
I applaud to your genius and ability bring the story visually. And what camera work, especially when you do the 360 turn from Larry to the road. I was speechless.
Can't wait for more!!!
Thank you Mike
Your comment is great - thank you so much for leaving it. I have to admit :P I'm a dork, I've been waiting for someone to notice the moving 180 at the end - those were somewhat tricky shots to pull off :)
We built a platform on the top of the van - and bolted a 20ft crane to the top of it... which got us a lot of funny looks :P
Here's a pic here of it strapped down while we were stopped to eat: urltea.com/2qpb ..So you can imagine me sitting on top of the van, working this very large crane while doing 20 mph down the road.
I'm anxious to some of the shots we have where it's up as far as it can go - it's very bird's-eye'ish :)
Yeah it was 180 degree shot, my mistake. But what a shot it is... I was still under its impression I guess that's why I wrote 360 :))
Keep up amazing us Mike
Renat
Ehh 180, 360 :) whichever, ha ha - I do have a few 360's with the crane somewhere - I'll try to work them in the episodes eventually.
You got so many comments, I think it's becoming like a full-time job for you just to reply to them :))
Where in America are you now guys?
Renat
I feel very lucky - to have been able to make something that has that kind of effect on someone. I feel lucky having any effect what-so-ever to begin with :P
You wanna' know something funny ;) when I woke up this morning I had 78 new emails in my inbox - and when I looked 73 of them were new comments on vimeo, and I thought "oh my god, the episode must have exploded" :D but it turns out that somehow, your comment got re-sent about 65 times. Ha ha.
But I really love your comment - and yes, thanks so much for putting it on the channels so other people can stumble onto it easier. :)
By the way, I like your profile pic.
And yes :) there will be more of Charlie - we got her during the trip actually, in ND, so in the later episodes she'll get introduced as a little puppy :P
Charlie's the best.
Thanks for the impact, Mike.
Thanks for watching - as for your question, yes there is plans... we are in the middle of that process. We did a vlog about answering this question, you can watch here if you'd like: vimeo.com/637514
This reminds me very strongly of a good friend who planned exactly such a trip a few years ago, but never was able to make it all come together. He had exactly the same spirit and passion about it. And it seems that one effect of great art is not only to express the passion of the artist, offering it as a shared or projected experience with the viewer ("I give you the gift of my vision"), but also to awaken emotions and experiences already present but dormant in the viewer ("I give you the gift of your own vision made new"). There is so little work in any medium that still offers such a reflective and open perspective, and this is precisely what your film does. Thanks.
I'm glad you liked the printer shots - I was worried about that section of the episode being.. well, just boring. I actually have about 15 minutes of footage just covering my printer from different angels and corners :P
But yea, Amanda and I are trying really hard to get more familiar with the, as you say, expansive and contractive storytelling.
Meaning that the full length doc' will jump a lot between the wide, silent, slow-moving, peaceful and haunting memories of the road... and the little details of stories.. both personal and material. That might not make much sense... uhm, by "material", I mean "the story of the white house", for example, and recreate a history of an abandoned house Larry might have stopped to snap a picture of.
Just cause... these are stories you create in your head when you're on the road observing every tiny little detail of your surroundings... and how they all come together.
Thanks so much for the great comment though - I hope you keep watching. :)
But thanks for this - and yes, the bike is a metaphor, very much so.
Thanks and can't wait what coming.
I'm a big fan of documentaries covering many topics. Over the years I've become very critical of how all the elements they contain, the video quality, content, story line and so on come together. I think the benchmark of a documentary is how well it brings the viewer into the experience and allows him/her to identify with some aspect of the story line on an emotional or intellectual level. I believe you are accomplishing this in your film, this episode left me looking forward to the next. I want to know, I want to experience the next, I want to ride the emotional rollercoaster of highs & lows with the now lone rider.
It's a rare thing when a fan is given the opportunity to watch someone evolve into a master story teller. Thanks for sharing the journey.
As for watching people become better story tellers in filming, Amanda and I feel really strongly about sharing the experience of the filmmaking *as* it's happening. As opposed to the behind-the-scenes being thrown together by some intern editor for a bonus disc on a DVD...
There's a real opportunity to both, build an audience of peers who would be up for seeing our film once it's finished - and also helps us learn hard lessons of story telling and everything that comes with it.
I hope this response made sense, I'm at SXSW and I haven't slept much the last few days.
You might be interested to know that Larry is now preparing to do a ride from Alaska to the southern most tip of South America, you can read about it here sixteenthousandmiles.com
Hope you keep watching :)
Because as you once said, in the end, this is not about the bike. It´s about the journey.
I hope i can meet you someday.
But to know that someone has come back more than once, more than twice to watch the same episodes over again - is... just the greatest compliment ever. Amanda and I are really, really flattered.
I hope to meet you too. Hopefully sooner than later.
By the way - I watched, on Virb, your short film, Similo, the other day and thought it was very beautiful. Loved it.
I actually have some questions about the kit you used, I've been looking to buy a sgpro.co.uk to complete some of the filming for Pedal... but I'd like to hear more on the Cinemek.
It means a lot to Jay and I.
Even though I don't think he's even watched it yet...
I'm sure he's pumped.
sitting here, watching this at 2AM, I'm sort of at a loss for words at how special these episodes feel to me...
that last shot of Larry riding away, and the camera panning over... i could watch it all day...
We had a large 20 foot crane strapped down to the top of the minivan (nick named, the Command Center, by Larry), and we would drive around for hours straight filming things with it. Getting bird's eye shots, 360s, etc... there's a lot of that stuff that I've been looking at the last few days. It takes me back.
Sorry we've been slow on posting the next one, we've been busy on things (we swear), I'm writing the next episode currently.
You're the 101th comment on this video - I don't have a prize or anything, I just thought that was exciting ;)
Thanks for leaving a comment and keeping an eye on the project. I'm very proud of Larry, and I often get jealous watching the footage I've been watching, he's a beast.
Hope to see you on the blog :) Thanks again.
Oh I had myself an IBC and then some :P I don't know what that means. Thanks so much for this comment - and for all the support.
I hope I don't disappoint ;)
I ride my bike at every possible chance i have when im not filming, and i film at every chance i have that im not riding my bike.
I just discovered this project about half a hour ago, and although we dont ride the same kinds of bikes, i think this video is beautiful and captivating. I dont remember the last time I watched a web video of this length without wondering how long it has left.
I wish you and your crew all the best in your coming miles
John Young
Steadfast Video Zine
Sydney Australia